Archives - 26 October 2017, Thursday

The leader of the nation’s largest veterans service organization expressed concern over the loss of financial protections for veterans and servicemembers in the wake of a U.S. Senate late night vote on Wednesday. Fifty-one members of the Senate voted to overturn a recent Consumer Fina...

PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) -- The Sasebo-based amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) rendered assistance to two distressed mariners, Oct. 25, whose sailboat had strayed well off its original course. The mariners, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiaba, both from Honolulu, and their two ...

Video reportedly showing Iraqi military and PMU forces near the town of Faysh Khabur Earlier today, Iraqi forces backed by Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs) launched an offensive in the Zummar district of northern Ninewa governorate at the same time they launched an off...

We need to make a concerted effort right now to improve the quantity of what our shipyards can deliver both in terms of new construction and repair work. The fact that the Boise is only just now going to enter a private shipyard for overhaul after being welded to the pier for months u...

Operating close to shore, the Navy and Marines will also need “some type of screening / scouting surface forces,” Berry said. “I’m talking about missile boats.” Many countries use them for coastal defense, although the US Navy has historically considered them too fragile and short-ran...

But in myriad interviews over more than a year, it appears that Weiss, along with his predecessor at the IAI helm and at least two other IAI employees who have since retired, is being penalized for business contacts with Steward David Nozette, a U.S. physicist and planetary scientist ...

It might have been worthwhile to have a few of the Sprucans available for modernization and reactivation, but to this outsider it appeared the USN was intent upon destroying them as quickly as possible to prevent just that possibility. They could have provided a lot more capability th...

“Do they take the doctors in the military and then turn them into programmers? Do they turn them into technicians? I don’t think so. Do they take the lawyers in the military and make them doctors and so forth? It’s insane,” Schmidt said. “So it seems to me it’s pretty obvious we shoul...

French Tiger helicopters on Oct. 21 struck a militant vehicle just across the Niger-Mali border, not far from the scene of an ambush in early October that killed four U.S. soldiers. According to a Facebook post by the French Ministry of Defense, French Tiger helicopters pursued armed ...

More than half of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America members know a post-Sept. 11 service member who has committed suicide, a figure that has climbed dramatically in recent years and underscores continued problems with young veterans and mental health care. The findings are part...

WASHINGTON — U.S. aircraft launched two airstrikes against ISIS targets in al-Bayda Governorate of Yemen on Wednesday killing nine ISIS fighters, according to officials at U.S. Central Command. Wednesday’s strikes are only the second series of strikes against ISIS militants in Yemen. ...

SEOUL — The two-star chief of staff for U.S. Africa Command has been assigned to lead the Army’s official investigation into the ambush that led to the deaths of four U.S. soldiers earlier this month in Niger, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford said Thursday. Ma...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - As part of the broader planning effort to transition from hurricane response to hurricane recovery, FEMA and DoD have assessed the need for continuing the use of certain support assets currently assigned to the territories. Together, they have determined, in co...

It has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military Classics, and “for the last two thousand years it remained the most important military treatise in Asia, where even the common people knew it by name. It has had an influence on Eastern and Western military thinking...

Japan will propose a strategic dialogue among leaders of the United States, India and Australia, aiming at counteracting China’s expansion under its “Belt and Road” policy, Foreign Minister Taro Kono told the Nikkei business daily. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to propose the ...

Lawmakers on Wednesday finalized plans to boost next year’s veterans benefits by the same cost-of-living increase as Social Security, meaning a 2 percent boost in payouts starting in December. The move is a routine annual step by lawmakers, but also a critical one. Under current law, ...

Dr. Vahid Majidi became the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters in December 2013. In this position, he is responsible for all aspects of nuclear weapon surety and the management, integration, and coordination of activities relating to the acquisition and moderniz...

“The heroic legions are advancing to eliminate the last bastion of terrorism in Iraq to liberate al-Qaim, Rawa, villages and towns in western Anbar, all of which will return to the homeland,” Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a statement posted to Facebook Thursday morning.

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs has been credited with major medical advancements since its research office was created in 1925 -- the cardiac pacemaker, shingles vaccine and the first successful liver transplant topping its list of accomplishments. Now, a group of law...

Navy rescues two Hawaiians and their dogs, lost at sea A Japan-based Navy ship rescued two Hawaiians Wednesday who had been lost at sea for months, according to a Navy release. The amphibious dock landing ship Ashland picked up the two Honolulu-based mariners, along with their two dog...

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The Marines Corps is upgrading its M1A1 tanks so that gunners can program when 120 mm main gun rounds detonate. “It puts several ammunition capabilities into a single round,” said Lt. Col. Mark Braithwaite. “Given the logistics challenges of carrying multiple types of unique rounds fo...

The report faulted the 552nd Commodities Maintenance Squadron at the Air Logistics Complex in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for having inadequate procedures for keeping track of parts, which was a “substantially contributing factor” in the crash. The 552nd didn‘t make sure that only the ne...

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WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — Many of the worst VA hospitals in the country last year remain among the worst this year, according to internal rankings released Wednesday by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Nearly a dozen of the medical centers who received one out of five sta...

A military geared towards complexity is likely to succeed in a conventional fight as well. For example, in the first years of World War Two the German Army was able to defeat a superior French and British force because it was better suited to complex war. The French and the British as...